How to remove Searchconverteronline.com

What is Searchconverteronline.com

Searchconverteronline.com is a fake search engine that may appear in your browser out of nowhere. Actually, these changes are the result of browser hijacker infiltration. Malware like this often silently enters users’ computers and alters the settings of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, IE, or MS Edge web browsers. Once installed, it sets the new tab URL and homepage to portal.searchconverteronline.com. You should know that SearchConverterOnline can display irrelevant search results to make users visit certain webpages most of which are questionable. Furthermore, it can also track your browsing sessions and collect all information regarding these activities and transfer it to 3-rd parties. We guess that these reasons are enough to understand that Searchconverteronline.com removal is necessary if you want to protect your computer from possible damage.

Brief overview:
Name	SearchConverterOnline
Type of threat	Browser hijacker
URL address	https://portal.searchconverteronline.com/
Symptoms	Browser hijacker changes homepage and search engine of browser so that users are forced to use them. It fills the targeted browser with commercial content in form of pop-ups, banners, in-text links, audio/video ads, etc. Also, hijacker can occasionally cause redirects to third-party websites
Infiltration	Freeware programs, illegal software, software cracks, torrents, fake updates
Manual Removal	To eliminate threat manually, you should remove all files and applications related to the browser hijacker
Removal Tool	To completely get rid of hijacker, We recommend using SpyHunter. This is the only way you can be 100% sure that all components of the threat are removed from the system.

How to uninstall Searchconverteronline.com hijacker from your computer?

The easiest and most modern way of removing pop-ups, trojans, ransomware, or other viruses is to use automatic removal tools. See our Anti-malware tools below for further instructions.

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Also, you can try to uninstall Searchconverteronline.com hijacker manually.

Sometimes, an extension cannot be removed because it is supposedly “Managed by your organization”. If this is your case, we recommend that you also use this guide – How to remove Managed by your organization from Chrome?

Step 1: Remove Searchconverteronline.com hijacker from Control Panel/Applications

Windows XP:

Click Start.
Control Panel.
Then click Add or Remove Programs.
Find Searchconverteronline.com hijacker.
Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

Click Start.
Then Control Panel.
Click Uninstall a Program.
Find Searchconverteronline.com and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

Open the Menu.
Click Search.
After that click Apps.
Then Control Panel.
Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
Find Searchconverteronline.com, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
Click on App & features on the left menu.
On the right side, locate Searchconverteronline.com and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

Mac OSX:

Open Finder
In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
If you see Uninstall Searchconverteronline.com or Searchconverteronline.com Uninstaller (or other suspicious apps that you’ve never installed), double-click it and follow instructions
Drag unwanted application Searchconverteronline.com from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX

After that uninstall Searchconverteronline.com from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Searchconverteronline.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

If you cannot remove the extension from Google Chrome, as the delete icon is greyed out and the extension is marked as “managed by your organization”, you should first perform steps described in the How to remove Managed by your organization from Chrome? article and only then proceed with the removal.